LOT 120 A romantic tryst during a thunderstorm, the noble lover scaling the walls of a palace to his mistress' balcony, as her guards sleep below Kotah, late 18th Century
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289 x 200 mm.
A romantic tryst during a thunderstorm, the noble lover scaling the walls of a palace to his mistress' balcony, as her guards sleep below Kotah, late 18th Century
gouache and gold on paper, red border 289 x 200 mm.
|For other examples of this subject, which was popular in Kotah painting (and elsewhere) throughout the 18th Century and well into the 19th, see Sotheby's, Indian Miniatures: the Property of the British Rail Pension Fund, 26th April 1994, lot 14 (dated 1760, with a very similar composition to the present lot); Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 16th October 1996, lot 85 (mid-19th Century); The Indian Sale, 23rd May 2006, lot 97; and S. C. Welch (ed.), Gods, Kings and Tigers: the Art of Kotah, Munich 1997, pp. 208-209, no. 67 (circa 1866-89).
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